Lead Java Engineer
UK

The median Lead Java Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 921 1085
Rank change year-on-year +359 +164 -241
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Engineer 346 74 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.073% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.080% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 57 57 62
10th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £70,735 £80,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £142,500 £117,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,250 £80,294 £86,250
% change year-on-year +7.42% -6.91% +32.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Java Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Java Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Java Engineer in the UK

Lead Java Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +251 299 £86,250 +7.42% 3
Scotland +127 278 - -
England +76 66 £100,000 -2.44% 8
London +118 47 £135,000 +28.57% 6
Work from Home +61 38 £135,000 +28.57% 7
South East - 14 £87,500 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
North of England +30 2 £80,000 +10.34% 1
North West +2 2 £80,000 +14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £105,000 - 1

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Lead Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Lead Java Engineer in the job title.

1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 325 (93.93%) Software Engineering
3 318 (91.91%) Agile
4 311 (89.88%) Finance
5 282 (81.50%) Law
5 282 (81.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 264 (76.30%) Operational Stability
7 248 (71.68%) SDLC
8 203 (58.67%) SQL
9 200 (57.80%) CI/CD
10 187 (54.05%) Marketing
11 185 (53.47%) Community of Practice
12 159 (45.95%) AWS
13 156 (45.09%) Spring
13 156 (45.09%) Artificial Intelligence
14 153 (44.22%) Machine Learning
15 143 (41.33%) Cloud Native
16 134 (38.73%) Architectural Design
17 128 (36.99%) Banking
18 127 (36.71%) NoSQL
19 123 (35.55%) Scala
20 122 (35.26%) Investment Banking
21 116 (33.53%) Information Architecture
22 106 (30.64%) Performance Tuning
23 97 (28.03%) Apache Spark
24 96 (27.75%) Big Data
24 96 (27.75%) Influencing Skills
25 94 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
26 90 (26.01%) Kafka
27 89 (25.72%) Spring Boot

Lead Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 97 (28.03%) Apache Spark
2 32 (9.25%) Cloud Foundry
3 22 (6.36%) Apache
3 22 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (6.07%) GemFire
5 4 (1.16%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) Drupal
6 2 (0.58%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 159 (45.95%) AWS
2 64 (18.50%) GCP
3 46 (13.29%) Azure
4 22 (6.36%) dbt
5 21 (6.07%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.58%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.91%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (36.71%) NoSQL
2 96 (27.75%) Big Data
3 39 (11.27%) Apache Cassandra
4 38 (10.98%) CockroachDB
4 38 (10.98%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (8.96%) MongoDB
6 23 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (6.36%) Apache Arrow
7 22 (6.36%) Apache Ignite
7 22 (6.36%) Dremio
8 21 (6.07%) Hazelcast
9 20 (5.78%) Data Lake
10 17 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (4.34%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.31%) MySQL
13 6 (1.73%) CouchDB
14 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.87%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
16 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (10.69%) Cypress.io
2 22 (6.36%) Jasmine
2 22 (6.36%) JUnit
2 22 (6.36%) Karma Test Runner
2 22 (6.36%) Protractor
2 22 (6.36%) Selenium
2 22 (6.36%) WebDriver
3 21 (6.07%) Jaeger
4 15 (4.34%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.18%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.60%) Gradle
7 5 (1.45%) JIRA
8 4 (1.16%) Git
9 3 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.29%) Spock
General
1 311 (89.88%) Finance
2 282 (81.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 282 (81.50%) Law
3 187 (54.05%) Marketing
4 128 (36.99%) Banking
5 122 (35.26%) Investment Banking
6 96 (27.75%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (6.36%) Front Office
7 22 (6.36%) Prime Brokerage
8 11 (3.18%) Social Skills
9 7 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Legal
11 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Aviation
12 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (45.09%) Spring
2 90 (26.01%) Kafka
3 89 (25.72%) Spring Boot
4 52 (15.03%) React
5 44 (12.72%) REST
6 40 (11.56%) HTML
7 39 (11.27%) AngularJS
8 38 (10.98%) CSS
9 37 (10.69%) Hibernate
9 37 (10.69%) J2EE
10 28 (8.09%) JPA
11 26 (7.51%) JSON
12 22 (6.36%) JMS
12 22 (6.36%) jQuery
12 22 (6.36%) Node.js
12 22 (6.36%) NumPy
12 22 (6.36%) Pandas
12 22 (6.36%) Protocol Buffers
12 22 (6.36%) SciPy
12 22 (6.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 143 (41.33%) Cloud Native
2 59 (17.05%) Public Cloud
3 43 (12.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (7.23%) Private Cloud
5 24 (6.94%) Fixed Income
6 22 (6.36%) Data Structures
6 22 (6.36%) Derivative
6 22 (6.36%) Equities
6 22 (6.36%) Hedge funds
7 21 (6.07%) Replication
8 8 (2.31%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.73%) PropTech
10 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.58%) Blockchain
13 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.45%) Linux
2 4 (1.16%) Windows
3 3 (0.87%) Unix
4 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (93.93%) Software Engineering
2 318 (91.91%) Agile
3 264 (76.30%) Operational Stability
4 248 (71.68%) SDLC
5 200 (57.80%) CI/CD
6 185 (53.47%) Community of Practice
7 156 (45.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 153 (44.22%) Machine Learning
9 134 (38.73%) Architectural Design
10 116 (33.53%) Information Architecture
11 106 (30.64%) Performance Tuning
12 94 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
13 81 (23.41%) Continuous Delivery
14 78 (22.54%) Tech Ops
15 51 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
16 48 (13.87%) TDD
17 38 (10.98%) Microservices
18 33 (9.54%) Decision-Making
19 32 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
20 29 (8.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 203 (58.67%) SQL
3 123 (35.55%) Scala
4 61 (17.63%) JavaScript
5 44 (12.72%) TypeScript
6 30 (8.67%) Python
7 22 (6.36%) Groovy
8 16 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.58%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) C++
9 2 (0.58%) PHP
9 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.58%) Ruby
9 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 10 (2.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (13.58%) Terraform
2 32 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.07%) Grafana
3 21 (6.07%) HAProxy
3 21 (6.07%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (6.07%) Kibana
3 21 (6.07%) Prometheus
3 21 (6.07%) Zipkin
4 2 (0.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (12.14%) Oracle
2 24 (6.94%) Dynatrace
2 24 (6.94%) Splunk
3 19 (5.49%) Google
4 18 (5.20%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.58%) Solace
5 2 (0.58%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.29%) Databricks
6 1 (0.29%) Informatica